Ebook: Light: A Radiant History From Creation to the Quantum Age
Author: Watson Bruce
- Tags: Licht, Light, Light--History, Light--Philosophy, Optics, Optics--History, History, Light -- History, Optics -- History, Light -- Philosophy
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, Light captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Jacket.;"This light is come" : myths of creation and first light -- "The thing you call light" : early philosophers from Greece to China -- "The highest bliss" : the millennium of divine radiance -- "A glass like a glittering star" : Islam's golden age -- "Bright is the noble edifice" : paradise in the Middle Ages -- Chiaro e scuro : light and dark on canvas -- "Investigate with me what light is" : the scientific revolution and the century of celestial light -- "In my darken'd chamber" : Isaac Newton and Opticks -- "A wild and harmonized tune" : the romantics and the light seductive -- Undulations : particle vs. wave -- Lumière : France's dazzling century -- "Little globe of sunshine" : electricity conquers the night -- c : Einstein and the quanta, particle, and wave -- "Catching up with our dreams" : lasers and other everyday wonders.
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